Six Tragedies
$35.61
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2010
Summary
- Phaedra
- Oedipus
- Medea
- Trojan Women
- Hercules Furens
- Thyestes
Seneca’s plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192807069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192807064 |
| Author: | Seneca, Emily Wilson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity.
I am awstruck by how good this is * Times Literary Supplement, A. N. Wilson’s Book of The Year, 3/12/2010 *
Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity. * TLS, *
A fine new translation. * William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement *
This edition of Seneca’s tragedies is fresh, affordable, and teachable. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Seneca
Emily Wilson is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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